The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 96
‘That is my mistress, the countess of the fountain, and the wife of him whom thou didst slay yesterday.’
Who acts: That, thou, wife · What happens: be, do, slay · To what, where: mistress, wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, thou, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mistress | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mistress | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 countess | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 countess | det |
| 8 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mistress | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fountain | det |
| 11 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 countess | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slay | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slay | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 didst | obj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 didst | nsubj |
| 20 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wife | acl:relcl |
| 21 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 mistress | parataxis |
| 22 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slay | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 mistress | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my mistress and the countess of the fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | thou | the wife of horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | slay | infinitive | the wife of horse | yesterday | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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